Articles in: Food Sensitivities

In an article called, “The Most Important Half Inch of the Body,” included in this section, I discuss how undigested foods can irritate the gut and cause congestion of the intestinal villi, resulting in lymphatic congestion and hypersensitivities. Instead of taking the hard to digest foods out of the diet, let’s reboot the digestive strength that you were always meant to have.

What did you cook your dinner in last night? Olive oil? Butter? Canola oil? Lard? There is a lot of confusion around which oils are best for cooking. But with the help of some surprising new research, I can help you get on the right track. Saturated, Polyunsaturated + Monounsaturated First, let me explain the […]

Average Reading Time: 4 minutes and 36 seconds At first glance, the case being made against gluten seems quite compelling. Many people feel bloated, tired, heavy and dull after eating it… so it must be bad for you, right? I am not suggesting you eat wheat or dairy if they make you feel horrible, but […]

Average Reading Time: 2 minutes and 50 seconds There are many foods that have either natural opioids or trigger an opioid-like response in the body that most people eat daily. The question is whether these are foods that we should be avoiding, or did Mother Nature put those opioids in foods so that we will […]

Average Reading Time: 4 minutes and 22 seconds The multi-billion dollar gluten-free industry is fueled by books, blogs and gluten-free products all suggesting that gluten is the new poison rather than a protein. After 30-plus years of practice dedicated to gaining a better understanding of digestive health, I found that solely removing wheat and dairy […]

By now we have all been sufficiently confused about the merits and dangers of soy. Ancient writings from China suggest that the soybean was traditionally considered unfit for human consumption. The reason may be that the soybean is uniquely endowed with certain toxic anti-nutrients that are extremely hard to digest. As a result, soy is […]

Average Reading Time: 2 minutes and 8 seconds For years, I have been very suspicious of allergy testing methods, because I would often see patients come in with a laundry list of foods they were told to avoid for the rest of their life. Then, six months later, the same allergy test would reveal a […]

Average Reading Time: 2 minutes A new study published this month in JAMA (Journal of American Medical Association) looked at the average sugar intake of over 31,000 people over a five year period. The findings showed that between the years 2005 and 2010, 71% percent of Americans ate more than one tenth of their calories […]

There are many factors that are blamed for the recent rise of gluten intolerance and celiac disease in America. Among the most common cited is increased gluten content in wheat as a result of wheat breeding. To sort this out, the Department of Agriculture commissioned to investigate this issue. (1) Here is what they came […]

According to Dr. John Hawks, a professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, we are all still evolving and quite rapidly. Although it might take 10,000 years for these genetic changes to be measurable, we are no doubt actively adapting to this new and crazy world. In genetic terms, it was quite […]

The local people of Kerala, on the southwestern coast of India, claim that the earth’s very first coconut tree came from their soil. They called it the “tree of life” because every part of the tree – the root, the fruit, the leaves, the trunk – is utilized in a multitude of ways to support […]

Lactose intolerance is not new! DNA evidence extracted from Neolithic skeletons indicates that, in 5500 BC, people in Northern Europe were also lactose intolerant. (1) Earthenware vessels found in England and dated to 4500 BC contain milk byproducts, indicating milk was used. (2) Ayurveda addressed lactose intolerance thousands of years ago in a way that […]

In a recent report in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, a gluten-free diet was measured for its effectiveness at shedding pounds. According to Mayo Clinic’s gluten expert, Joseph Murray MD, there is no evidence that a gluten free diet will affect weight loss. In fact, in this study conducted on celiac patients on a […]

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